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Profile alignment

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Profile alignment

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- [Instructor] In this example, we're going to be looking at aligning a weldment profile. So you can see here we've got already a weldment created and you can see it's this line right here which is defining that basic shape at the bottom. And then I've got a 3D sketch with a couple of members coming up here, which I want to create a weldment from. So I'm going to go over here to weldments. Go ahead and create a structural member. I'm going to go ahead and use that same P one profile, click on that one right here. And you can see here that it's totally not aligned, right. That's not what we want. So, the first thing I want to do is I want to locate the profile, and I want to use this corner right there. So that's where I want to use it. And then I want to click on this alignment and I want to choose that line right there. Notice it does align to that. The problem is I aligned it and it spun it around so I'm using a different corner. So let's go ahead and try locating that profile one…

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